On the 29th of the lunar month, the day before Qianlong's 41st Chinese New Year's Eve.

Prince Heshuorui, General Fuyuan, and Minister of the Parliamentary Prince, Aixin Jueluo Shikai, rushed to Tianmen in the cold wind and snow.

This place is the first town of the new army in Hubei, and Prince Rui came to attend the military ceremony and make an important speech.

I was in a very bad mood on the road, not because there was something wrong with the reorganization process of the first town of the Hubei Army, but because there was a fire in the backyard.

The children of Aixin Jueluo, who went with him on the expedition, spontaneously formed a wave of deserters when the year was approaching.

At first, just a few clan disciples quietly absconded from the camp, and then it was out of control, and when Jia Liu received the report, there were as many as 1,000 clan disciples who fled north, accounting for one-tenth of the total number of accompanying troops!

The situation is very urgent and of a very bad nature.

Angry, General Jia Liu, the wing commander in charge of the Yellow Belt Battalion, Balla, and the wing commander in charge of the Red Belt Battalion, Guan Zhong, each drew thirty lashes.

It's a real pump.

Thirty lashes went down, and the two winged commanders couldn't even walk, so they were directly called to carry away.

Ding Qing, who was in charge of the Internal Affairs Committee of the Eight Banners, could not escape the blame, and after the two winged commanders were beaten, he took the initiative to ask for fifty lashes.

Jia Liuwei snorted and ordered his guards to be executed.

After the fifty whips were drawn, Deputy Director Ding's face turned green.

I hate that one called smoking.

It's not that he hates the ruthlessness of the prince, but he hates that the gang of clan deserters implicated him, and he even hates the serious misinvestigation of the work of the Internal Affairs Committee, which did not strangle the tide of deserters in the blue, so that thousands of people ran away in three days!

"The prince is angry, according to the lower officials, these children have never left home, they are small and pampered, and they suddenly came to this strange south with the army, and the New Year is approaching, so they feel homesick..."

For some purpose, Deputy Director Ji hoped that the prince would not make a big move, after all, the weight of the children of the clan was not as good as that of ordinary banner people.

Moreover, these children of the clan are really not very useful, asking them to go out to exercise, line up, and wave the flag, but there is a look, really let them go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, not to mention that the enemy is on the side, even on their own side.

In this case, it is better to open one eye, close one eye, and let them go.

Anyway, what the prince wants to eliminate are the outstanding children of the clan, not the children of these wastes.

These people are so cowardly and so unsuccessful, and it is impossible for them to hinder the great cause of the prince's yellow robe in the future.

Therefore, Deputy Director Ji means that if the prince is more generous, he can even give the court a fold, and send a group of clan children back to Beijing in the name of "compassion and understanding".

In this way, it will be able to dispel the influence of the "desertion tide" and second, it will also be able to gain the gratitude and support of the clan in Beijing, which will play a certain role in smashing the reactionary clique of "Hong, Se, and Fu" that may exist.

But the prince didn't agree!

I saw that the prince overturned the table of the eight immortals in front of him to the ground, and scolded: "Those who are soldiers, who don't want to go home!" Why, he loves Xinjueluo is a human, and everyone else is not a human! His grandmother's, this king didn't go home for the New Year, how dare they go home! ”

In anger, Jia Liu decided to punish severely, and for this reason, in the name of the general Wang, he promulgated the "Huguang Front Special Arrest of Deserters Law".

This law stipulates that General Wang Xingyuan shall set up a special agency for the arrest of deserters, and shall supervise the arrest department.

There are five superintendents and 100 superintendents.

Thousands of elite officers and soldiers were dispatched from all over the country to supervise the arrest office, all of which were equipped with fast horses.

In addition, it is also stipulated that all localities should send personnel to set up cards at the crossings and passes to arrest deserters.

For each one obtained, the card keeper will be rewarded with 50 taels, and the rest will be rewarded with 5 taels.

Anyone who deserts is caught will be severely punished by military law, that is, he will be immediately beheaded, no matter who he is, whether he has a knighthood or not.

At the same time, Hubei, Shaanxi, Henan, Zhili, and other places were instructed to abide by the "Law on the Arrest of Deserters" and to set up personnel in various places within the territory to investigate, and once it was discovered that there were deserters who had sneaked from the Huguang front, they would be arrested on the spot and transferred to the general Wang Xingyuan.

Deputy Director Ji saw that Wang Ye had made up his mind, so it was difficult to persuade him again, but he made some judicial interpretations on whether the "Law on the Arrest of Deserters" was in accordance with the procedures and whether it was a national law.

It just doesn't seem to be legal.

Because the duty of the great general Wang is to take charge of life and death in front of the army, and even if he has just added the title of minister to the king, he does not have the right to issue the "Law of Arresting Deserters" without notifying the imperial court.

In order to circumvent possible accusations from the DPRK and China, Deputy Director Ji suggested that the law on arresting deserters be changed to a special order for execution.

"It is because of you old bureaucrats who muddy the water and thin the mud that the Qing Dynasty is getting worse and worse, the officials are corrupt, and the military discipline is not strict!"

Jia Liu decisively rejected Lao Ji's proposal.

After the seal is used, the decrees are issued to the provinces and places.

The Supervision and Arrest Office also took action immediately, and at the same time, the Eight Banners Internal Affairs Committee in charge of Ding Qing was also mobilized.

The effect was remarkable, and within three days, 158 people were arrested, and all of them were rectified after the correct body was verified.

Soon, the arresting officers from various places sent back the news that many of the escaped sect disciples found that the checkpoints were tight, so they hid on the spot.

They were hidden by the gentry, or by the magistrates, or by those who were greedy for money.

The reasons given by these people are either that they don't know, or that the flag people dare not disobey because of their lives.

If you dig deeper, you will find that most of the harborers have a relationship with Kyochu, or for future considerations, because they want to catch up with the clan...

In short, everything is good.

For the sake of profit, he is not afraid of the law of Prince Rui.

"The children of the clan are the successors of my Daqing Sect Temple, and they are also the pillars of my country, whether they are outside or inside, they are the last pillars of the country. However, now the children go out with the army and do not want to serve the country, but flee to the Japanese, and do not get one out of ten. If the law is strict, the country will suffer, but if the law is not strict, then there will be no taboo in the nest, and the more people will flee!

Flee the clan today, flee the Eight Banners tomorrow, and then flee to the green camp? Why raise soldiers? The independent clan is bitter, but my Qihan army is not bitter? ”

Faced with the phenomenon of harboring and the imminent pressure in Beijing, Jia Liu personally wrote to the imperial court to give an official explanation for the severe punishment of the children of the sect who fled to the north.

In order to prevent someone on the front line from speaking out for the children of the clan who fled north, such as the Minister of the Interior Niu Lunbao, the second cousin Urshi Balan, etc., Jia Liu issued another general decree.

It said: "Those who are deserters are negligent, they are all beheaded, and they are not allowed to be sealed!" ”

On the 24th of the lunar month, the Supervision and Arrest Department newly arrested 35 people from the sect who had fled north.

In order to show his determination to punish severely, Jia Liu's generals and the surrounding garrisons of the Manchu and Han Dynasty and above officials were all called, and ordered in public to cut off the heads of all 35 fleeing sect disciples.

The highest rank in the middle is the general of Zhenguo.

After the execution, the emperor personally gave him the sword of Suppression Pilon, saying: "Those who do not obey the king's order will be ghosted by this sword!" ”

Under such heavy pressure, no one in the Manchurian generals on the front line dared to persuade him.

All localities did not dare to neglect the desertion anymore, but anyone who was found to have a Beijing film accent in the territory, whether it was a fledgie from the north or not, would be arrested and sent to the general Wang Xingyuan.

Those who harbored, for whatever reason, were all arrested and sent away.

In this way, hundreds of harborers were arrested, and after they were removed, all of them were executed.

The head was cut off in a large piece, and it was so terrifying that no one in the country dared to hide the flag man who wanted to go home for the New Year.

The highest-ranking official involved in eucalyptus was Wang Shaogong, the prefect of Xiangyang, who was originally from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and harbored several relatives of the master's family without authorization.

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As a result, the news was too tight, and the children of the clan who fled north were quickly denounced, and Wang Shaogong saw that the general Wang had strict laws, and no matter who was caught, he would be beheaded, and he was so frightened that he committed suicide.

The checkpoints in various places are also tightened layer by layer, and the tide of deserters has been curbed in a few days, and those red and yellow belts who have not yet escaped but have been moved to see the fate of escaping see the fate of escape, and no one dares to mention the matter of going home again, all of them are silent and trembling, and they all say that the devil six is playing really this time.

The name of the iron-blooded prince spread all over the north and south of the river, adding a touch of beautiful scenery to the Qing Dynasty at sunset.